New Monologues for Women by Women

by Haring-Smith, Tori

• ISBN13: 9780325006260
• ISBN10: 0325006261
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-23
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Editors Tori Haring-Smith and Liz Engelman present fifty-nine previously unpublished monologues written by some of the most inspiring and exciting women now emerging onto the international stage

Author Biography

Tori Haring-Smith has been a director, dramaturg, and translator for more than twenty years in academic and professional theatres. She has served as dramaturg for Trinity Repertory Company; artistic director for the Wallace Theatre in Cairo, Egypt; coordinated the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award; and is now vice president for educational affairs at Willamette University Liz Engelman has worked as dramaturg/literary manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman, ACT Theatre, and the McCarter Theatre; and is a consultant for The Playwrights' Center, on the advisory board of the National New Play Network, and the president of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Table of Contents

Subject Index	ix
Why Monologues?	xvii
Tips on Auditioning with a Monologue	xix
Geoffrey	1	(2)
Joan Ackermann
Cantaloupe	3	(2)
Liz Duffy Adams
Arm Bone	5	(2)
Janet Allard
By Definition	7	(2)
Rachel Axler
The Strawberry Scene	9	(2)
Bianca Bagatourian
Excerpt from A Body of Water	11	(2)
Neena Beber
Winter with Tambourine Boy	13	(4)
Brooke Berman
Perry Mason, Parakeets, and Gorganzola	17	(4)
Meredith Besser
The Women of Lockerbie	21	(2)
Deborah Brevoort
Excerpt from con flama	23	(3)
Sharon Bridgforth
I Am Not a Black Woman	26	(2)
Kim Brundidge
Excerpt from Kate Crackernuts	28	(1)
Sheila Callaghan
Excerpt from Scab	29	(1)
Sheila Callaghan
Excerpt from Braille Garden	30	(1)
Darrah Cloud
So Far	31	(1)
Connie Congdon
Addicts	32	(2)
Tonya Derrickson
Circles	34	(2)
Constance Dial
The Four Effs	36	(2)
Donna DiNovelli
F2F	38	(4)
Linda Eisenstein
Lightning	42	(3)
Annie Evans
Take Back the Classroom	45	(2)
Nell Grantham
Excerpt from Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat	47	(2)
Rinne Groff
Intimate Lay	49	(1)
Ellen Hagan
Excerpt from Do You Have Time to Die?	50	(2)
Imani Harrington
The Adventures of Munchkin Woman	52	(3)
Jean Kristen Hedgecock
Excerpt from Mitzi's Abortion	55	(2)
Elizabeth Heffron
Excerpt from Distance Over Time Equals	57	(2)
Lindsay Brandon Hunter
Anymore	59	(2)
Carleen Jaspers
Excerpt from Spring Thaw	61	(1)
Susan Johnston
Cowslips	62	(2)
Honour Kane
Shoes	64	(2)
Aurorae Khoo
And What She Told Me	66	(1)
Marty Kingsbury
Excerpt from Original Sin	67	(2)
Lisa M. Konoplisky
Diet Cherry Coke	69	(2)
Sherry Kramer
Fantasy Land	71	(3)
Mary Lathrop
Excerpt from String of Pearls	74	(2)
Michele Lowe
Excerpt from Iphigenia and Other Daughters	76	(5)
Ellen McLaughlin
A Tradition	81	(2)
Ana Maria Mebane
A Bear Incident	83	(5)
Susan Mendelsohn
Cockapoo	88	(3)
S. P. Miskowski
Neutered by Sperm	91	(3)
Stephanie Moore
Still Life of a Mouth	94	(2)
Julie Marie Myatt
My Mother's Eyes	96	(3)
Jamie Pachino
Netty's Dance	99	(1)
Regina Porter
Gone Stone Cold	100	(6)
Susanna Ralli
Circus Madness	106	(2)
Jacquelyn Reingold
Variations on a Theme	108	(2)
Tania Richard
Qualification 2	110	(2)
Kate Robin
Excerpt from The Clean House	112	(1)
Sarah Ruhl
Excerpt from Under Yelena	113	(2)
Buffy Sedlachek
The Black Eyed	115	(3)
Betty Shamieh
God Is A Dyke	118	(6)
Jane Shepard
The Shaman on the Mountain	124	(2)
Lillian Ann Slugocki
Excerpt from Slow Fast Walking on the Red Eye	126	(2)
Caridad Svich
God Is Kind to Some Women	128	(2)
C. Denby Swanson
I'll Never Be Skinny Again	130	(1)
Fiona J. Torres
Fruit Flies	131	(3)
Jennie Webb
Two Girls	134	(2)
Erin Cressida Wilson
Breathing Space	136	(7)
Betty Jane Wylie
Contributors	143	(13)
Performance Rights	156